Art Is The Accomplice Of Love.

Art Is The Accomplice Of Love.

Since Art Is The Expression Of Beauty And Beauty Can Be Understood Only In The Form Of The Material Elements Of The True Idea It Contains, Art Has Become Almost Uniquely Feminine. Beauty Is Woman, And Also Art Is Woman.

Cliche Refers To Words, Commonplace To Ideas. Cliche Describes The Form Or The Letter, Commonplace The Substance Or Spirit. To Confuse Them Is To Confuse The Thought With The Expression Of The Thought. The Cliche Is Immediately Perceivable; The Commonplace Very Often Escapes Notice If Decked Out In Original Dress. There Are Few Examples, In Any Literature, Of New Ideas Expressed In Original Form. The Most Critical Mind Must Often Be Content With One Or The Other Of These Pleasures, Only Too Happy When It Is Not Deprived Of Both At Once, Which Is Not Too Rarely The Case.

In Order To Understand Life It Is Not Only Necessary Not To Be Indifferent To Men, But Not To Be Indifferent To Flocks, To Trees. One Should Be Indifferent To Nothing.

Of All The Sexual Aberrations, Perhaps The Most Peculiar Is Chastity.